Jammu-Kashmir Chunav Result: In Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance has crossed the majority mark by winning 48 seats. Now this alliance is going to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir. Only two Hindu faces have won on NC ticket in this election. Both the alliance partners had fielded a total of 30 candidates from Hindu and Sikh communities.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 29 seats in Jammu and Kashmir, has 28 Hindu and one Sikh members. No Muslim candidate, including two former ministers, could succeed in winning on the party ticket. National Conference’s Surinder Choudhary defeated BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Ravindra Raina from Nowshera constituency in Rajouri district by a margin of 7,819 votes. Former Legislative Councilor Chaudhary got 35,069 votes as against Raina’s 27,250 votes.
Raina had won the Nowshera seat in the 2014 assembly elections by defeating Chaudhary, who contested on a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, by a margin of over 10,000 votes. However, Chaudhary resigned from PDP and joined BJP in 2022 and then joined National Conference in July last year.
Arjun Singh Raju is the second Hindu face to win the election on National Conference ticket from Ramban assembly constituency. Raju got 28,425 votes while independent candidate Suraj Singh Parihar got 19,412 votes. BJP candidate Rakesh Singh Thakur stood third by getting 17,511 votes. Parihar had rebelled against the BJP and contested the elections as an independent candidate.
The National Conference had fielded nine Hindu candidates, including one woman, but only two of them could win. On the other hand, Congress had fielded 19 Hindu and two Sikh candidates, most of whom were from Jammu region, but none of them managed to win and most of the candidates finished second.
None of the BJP’s 25 Muslim candidates were successful in winning the elections and most of them, especially in the Kashmir Valley, had their deposits forfeited. BJP had fielded a total of 62 candidates, but only 28 Hindu and one Sikh candidate could win in Jammu region.
Tags: Jammu Kashmir Election
FIRST PUBLISHED: October 8, 2024, 21:23 IST